Emma Sulkowicz

Paul Nungesser was cleared, harassed after accuser carried mattress on campus for year

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The Columbia University student very publicly accused of rape by a fellow student who carried around a mattress for a year as part of a performance art project has reached a settlement in his lawsuit against the university, reports the New York Times . Paul Nungesser sued Columbia a month before...
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The Columbia student who carried a mattress around campus all year as an art project about her alleged campus rape is out with a new project likely to generate even more attention. Emma Sulkowicz has made a video in which she has a sexual encounter with a man in a...
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Emma Sulkowicz of Columbia carries her symbolic mattress

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A Columbia student who has been carrying a dorm mattress around campus all year as a symbolic gesture against her alleged rapist has kept that gesture going until the very end: Emma Sulkowicz today brought her mattress to graduation, reports the Columbia Spectator . When her name was called, she brought...
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His accuser turned the case into a very public senior thesis

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A high-profile case involving rape allegations at Columbia University has taken another unusual turn. The accused student, Paul Nungesser, has sued the school and accused it of allowing his accuser to publicly ruin his name, reports the Guardian . The suit is referring to the senior thesis of Emma Sulkowicz, who...
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Paul Nungesser holds that sex was consensual

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A Columbia University senior is drawing attention to the issue of rape on campus by carrying a mattress with her, saying she'll keep bearing the load until her rapist is kicked out of school. Now, the man she accuses of the attack is speaking publicly for the first time,...
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Emma Sulkowicz turns her senior thesis into a statement

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Columbia senior Emma Sulkowicz says school authorities have ignored her allegations that a fellow student raped her in her dorm room on the first day of sophomore year. It's going to be tough to ignore this, however: The visual arts major plans to carry a mattress with her everywhere...
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